Was Wallis Simpson the subject of society gossip – or the innocent victim of a vicious smear campaign?

Then, there was the love triangle in which she was said to have been involved: where she and another woman had fought over a man at the Italian embassy, resulting in one of them being taken to hospital, and the man in question taking his own life. This was a true story – but it pertained to the Marchesa Durazzo, and took place before Simpson arrived in China. Perhaps the most scandalous of accounts involved the so-called ‘Shanghai Squeeze’, a muscle tightening technique Simpson…